Heating-stove



2 Sheets- 1- Model.)

W-IANTHONY,

HEATING STOVE.

No. 371,658. I Patented Oct. 18, 1887.

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. 2 Sheets-Sheet 2. E. W. ANTHONY.

HEATING STOVE.

No. 371,658. Patented Oct. 18, 1887.

WtTNEIEEEE- NiTE EDGAR \V. ANTHONY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

HEATING-STOVE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 371,658, dated October18,1887.

Application filed July 20, 1885.

T0 aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDGAR WV. ANTHONY, of

Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, a citizenof the United States, haveinventedanew and useful lmprovementinHeating-Stoves, of which the followingisa full, clear, and exactdescription, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming apart of this specification, in explaining its nature. The inventionrelates to that class of heating-stoves which have an exterior casing orshell of sheet or Russia iron. By the old form of construction theentrance to the combustionchamber is surrounded by a narrow cast-ironframe which supports the combustion-chamher door, and the entrance tothe ash-pit is also provided with a cast-iron frame of a similarcharacter and for a like purpose, and the section of the stove betweenthese two sections is covered or inclosed by a drum or shell of sheet orRussia iron. This sheet of Russia iron is very thin and very liable toinjury or defacement in a number of ways, and it is a very common thingin stoves of this character to find the section or portion of the casingor shell immediately below the framework about the entrance to thecombustionchamber indented, battered, torn, rusted, and defaced in otherways from the usage to which it s subjected because of its location.This arises from a number of causes, but principally because of theliability of striking the same with the coal-hod or with coal in the actof making, feeding, or replenishing the fire.

The object of my invention is to protect this section or portion of thestove, or, rather, to provide a construction which will prevent inurythereto for any of the reasons above mentioned or from any other cause;and this I accomplish by placing below the entrance to thecombustionchamber an apron or plate of cast metal large enough to coverthe exposed section, and which cannot be injured in any of the waysabove described. This plate or apron may be made integral with theframework of the entrance to the combustion-chamber, or it may loe madeseparate therefrom, as desired, and it may cover the entire section ofthe stove between the said frame and the frame-work to the ash-pitentrance or not, as may be desired.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front eleva- Serial No. 172,039. (X0model.)

tion of a heating-stove provided with my invention. Fig. 2 is a detailView in vertical section to further illustrate the same. Fig. 3 is aView in elevation of a section of the stove to represent aslightly-modified form of the invention. Fig. 4 is a detail view invertical section thereof. Fig. 5 is a view in front elevation of aheating-stove also representing my invention, a portion of the side ofthe stove being broken out to show the ash-pit, grate, fire-pot, andcombustion-chamber. Fig. 61s a vertical detail section of theconstruction shown in Fig. 5. Fig. 7 is a horizontal section upon theline 00 00 of Fig. 5.

A represents the sheet-metal casing or shell of the stove; B, theash-pit; O, the grate; D, the firepot; E, the combustion-chamber; e,-the entrance thereto; 6, the east-metal framework about the entrance,and e the door to the combustion-chamber. b is the entrance to theash-pit; b, the cast-metal frame-work about the same, and b the door.

F is the apron or protecting-plate. It may be made integral with thecasing 0 as represented in Fig. 3, or it may be made separate therefrom,as represented in Figs. 1 and 2. Whichever way is adopted it will bewell to fasten the protecting-plate or apron to the stove by means ofthe screwsf. In Figs. 1 and 4 I have shown this apron orprotecting-plate as covering this entire section between the twoframe-works 6 b and in Fig. 3 it is shown as not entirely covering thesame; but it is essential that it be so shaped and arranged as to coverthe part of the shell or casing immediately below the entrance to thecombustionchamber. Itis obvious,ofcourse,that this protecting-plate orapron may be used additionally for ornamenting the stove, and when soused it may have cast upon it any figure or design of a suitablecharacter, and its edge configuration may be changed or modified at willfor this purpose. I

The advantages of the invention have been given in connection with thedescription.

I would say that for ornamental purposes the plate F may be continuedabove the frame of the combustion-chamber door, as represented in Figs.5 and 6; also, that the sheet-iron need not be continued about thesection of the stove covered by this plate, but may end at the edgethereof, substantially as represented in Fig. 7.

I would say that the sheet-metal shell of the A heating-stove having asheet-metal body stove immediately abovethe entrance to the providedwith an opening to the combustioncombustion-chamber, or between it andthe chamber, a cast-metal frame around said open- 15 top plate of thebase-section, is very likely to ing and below the said frame, andaoast-metal 5 become rusted becauseof the collection of sootprotecting-plate, F, somewhat wider at its top immediately back of thesame, which cannot than the said opening and diminishing in width easilybe removed, and which, under the indownwardly, substantially as shownand defluence of moisture, exerts a rusting action scribed.

upon the metal. EDGAR W. ANTHONY. 10 Having thus fully described myinvention, In presence of I claim and desire to secure by Letters PatentF. F. RAYMOND, 2d,

.of the United States- J. M. DOLAN.

